UNV Supply and Logistics Assistant

UNICEF in Turkey works to protect the rights of children and adolescents in Turkey since 1951. UNICEF's programme in Turkey focuses on the needs of the most vulnerable children in the areas of education, child protection, health care, social policy, adolescents and youth, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The UN Volunteer is expected to deliver the below tasks in accordance with the timeline, specifications, and standards provided by UNICEF's country program focuses on the needs of the most vulnerable children living in Türkiye in the fields of education, child protection, health, social policy, adolescence and youth, early childhood development in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The assignment will cover the contribution of the UN Volunteer to the effectiveness and efficiency of the Supply and Procurement Unit, the implementation of the supply chain management, by providing support and assistance to all staff in the assigned areas of responsibility.

UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the Supply and Procurement (S&P) Unit in carrying out market research analysis,
• Support the S&P unit to carry out an analysis and establish a range of appropriate costs for the commonly budgeted items,
• Support the S&P unit to unit adopt a series of cost-saving measures as per the initiatives proposed by the UNICEF Greening Group in TCO,
• Support the Supply and Procurement Unit in carrying out research on market shaping and different engagement modalities: how it is done in the UN and specifically in UNICEF,
• Support S&P unit to leveraging the power of business and markets by creating shared value through commercial engagement, influencing markets, product innovation and other engagement modalities,
• Prepare Solicitation documents,
• Bid tabulation and adjudication,
• All kinds of filings both electronic and manual,
• Administrative and logistical support to supply unit,
• Identify and update vendor database,
• Prepare reference letters requested by the vendors,
• Tasks assigned by the supply team.